What is Year of the Dragon? 2012

The Chinese New Year's Day is January 23, 2012. The Chinese New Year's Days are also called the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival lasts 10 days, the Dragon Year lasts one lunar year (12 months) --until Feb. 9, 2013.

 The Dragon personality The Dragon is a creature of myth and legend. A symbol of good fortune and sign of intense power, the Oriental Dragon is regarded as a divine beast - the reverse of the malicious monster that Westerners felt necessary to find and slay. In Eastern philosophy, the Dragon is said to be a deliverer of good fortune and a master of authority. Therefore, those people born in Dragon years are to be honored and respected. 

Dragon Years:  02/19/1904 to 02/03/1905 (Wood), 02/03/1916 to 01/22/1917 (Fire), 01/23/1928 to 02/09/1929 (Earth), 02/08/1940 to 01/26/1941 (Metal), 01/27/1952 to 02/13/1953 (Water), 02/13/1964 to 02/01/1965 (Wood), 01/31/1976 to 02/17/1977 (Fire), 02/17/1988 to 02/05/1989 (Earth), 02/05/2000 to 01/23/2001 (Metal), 01/23/2012 to 02/09/2013 (Water).

 So if you are not born on the year of the Dragon, what is in store for you on this year;

I think whatever sign your born on the chinese calendar it is a good gesture to attract the good luck on the year of the dragon because this is the year of  good fortune. 



I was born in the Year of the Tiger, and i am looking forward to a good luck, good health, wealth and good family relations this coming year.  I can feel that because i had a good vacation in my country this end of the year and the beginning of this year, i see unification with my two sons, then later with other members of the family. I consider this a good luck,  good year of the dragon. 


But this is more personal what about the worlds predictions what do the "experts" see in this coming year.  I am not an expert, try to read about this matter here at 2012predictions.

 2010 predictions is a site that tries to give what they see with the year 2012, will this be true or not?   So if your interested to read more, visit this site.


   http://www.2012predictions.net/index.html , just be careful not to believe everything you read.




HAPPY NEW YEAR  TO  ALL !!!  HAVE A  GOOD LUCK,  GOOD HEALTH, WEALTH, LOVE AND  HAPPY FAMILY

What tricks did Marquez have on Pacman?

The fight of Pacman vs Marquez became a controversial one when Pacman's supporters where not satisfied with the kind of fight  he had performed with Marquez. And from Marquez camp they believe there warrior was the one who won.

Though for the filipinos whether Pacman win or lose he still is the great fighter and Champion. Not this fight alone with Marquez can ever loose the faith of the Filipinos and to the world.  Pacman is a pound for pound champion and an eight division champion. We should accept that decision had been made and the judges are knowledgeable with their votes and decisions.

From Pacman's interview he accepts that Marquez is really a tough fighter.  He really was because the episodes of their fight won't reached this "Third One". And from the people of both camps they want to see who really would be down on the canvass just to say that "One is the Greatest"

I had been following the news on Pacmans preparation from the Philippines and the US. Pacman had really had a tough preparation for this fight because he knows Marquez is not that easy to be beaten. Pacman's preparation was all that physical and no tricks.

On the other hand news about Marquez preparation was not much seen on TV and newspapers. What i heard about Marquez was his drinking of his urine, Is this the trick?  So its quite obvious that maybe there was something that Marquez was preparing for the fight not only the urine.

Watch this pictures on the fight day, the tricks of Marquez maybe this is what he prepared to off balance Pacman in their fight/

Obviously from the pictures you can see that Marquez trick was to step on the foot of Pacman, so as Paacman would be off balance.  This might be the reason why the fight tricks of Pacman did not materialize. I just dont know why the judges or referee had not seen this "Foot Stopper Trick".

What had Marquez had to say on this, thanks for people's keen observers and a watchful eyes on the fight. At first i would really believe that Pacman had the hard time fighting Marquez but i was wondering why? what happened. And probably this is one of the great reason? though this was not mentioned by Pacman after the fight. You be the judge, i am not a boxer but seeing this images, i would see that Marquez deserves to be a loser and a un fair fighter.  Pacman should have another fight with this guy. ..LOSER ,,MARQUEZ

Cell phone use source of disease

One item on the news on The Filipino Channel catches my attention. Its about cellphone use as one source of disease. The news was about the study conducted in  United Kingdom that e-coli bacteria had been found on cellphones. So it is not only in the Philippines but, also in any country. Watch this video;

 

So what is e-coli? It is a bacteria from human waste. It is a deadly bacteria than can cause anybody to be sick. It is being transferred from one person to another through the cellphone. So if you have not wash your hands thoroughly you can be contaminated with e-coli bacteria which can be a cause for you to be sick. You might hold your face, your cellphones or other cell, computers or anything. The sypmptoms of the disease are severe abdominal cramps, fever and vomiting, bloody diarrhea and nausea.

The basic, safest and the best thing to do is wash your hands very well with soap and water. There is also a right way of washing the hands. It is not safe that you wet your hands with water and soap, Filipinos should do this religiously because we have the habit of not using paper whenever we defecate. Besides washing the hands with soap and water dry the hands with hand dryers. In public, commercial or business buildings there are special air hand dyers or restroom hand dryers. I am sure with the heat coming from this drier the bacteria will surely die and prevent you and anybody from the contamination of e-coli. 

Thanksgiving Day from a flip

Yes its Thanksgiving Day here in Canada, a national holiday that falls on the second Monday of October. It's a day from what history is saying a day to give thanks for good harvest for the farmers and other fortunes for the past year.

I am a flip (filipino) and since its holiday I just have to follow a good day. But thinking me as a flip, I cannot let go in my mind the sufferings the people in the Philippines are in right now. Whenever I watch the ABS-CBN radyo patrol there are always that bad or good news. But it is always striking on our hearts and emotions news of accidents, crimes, disasters specially with the latest floods brought about by Typhoons Pedring and Queil. It's emotionally hurting to see people from northern and central luzon walks and swims on the roads from knee deep to above head floods. It's apathetic  to see people, children, sick, crippled and old ones being transported from their houses to evacuation areas.

People in evacuation areas chilling, hungry and sick not even a crowd control system can discipline the surge of affected Filipinos. And the those managing the evacuation centers had not learned to use stanchions or velvet rope to put order in their rationing system. They should have provided barricades to separate the different families to put system of checking and temporary lodgings. Though as a whole the government system is always unprepared and unskilled for this kind of disasters. All we can say  Thanks to God, there were still many people safe though there 200 dead and billions of pesos worth of crops and properties were devastated.

After almost two weeks the typhoons had gone, the floods set in and now its going back to, but not  in all the places. There are still areas flooded. Nevertheless it's still a Thanksgiving Day people are going back to their homes and will be moving on to their normal life.

Life is a Gamble

Gambling is the primary source of living of my father when he was still alive. He was able to make a living with her craft. He was able to provide for the family and made all of us his seven children finished schooling up to college. But in real life never he taught us how to gamble.

But when your thinking how he was able to make the family economy secure with just gambling alone, it's amazing. He is very good in his own trade. I was wondering if he had taught us about his secrets there's probably a good chance I will not have problems with money.

When you want to gamble here in Canada you have to go to Casino. This is always one of the favorite places that everybody visits be it for fun and trying your luck. This is where I always remember my father. I am also trying my luck on online casino, you never know I might hit a jackpot. But I only play slot machines on real casino and online casino's.

I always had this thought in mind that "life is a gamble" then why not try gambling its part of our life.